Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women.

I'm your host, Erin Kunkel.

And I'm your co-host, Sarah Stone Street.

Well, welcome to the first live in-person, Strong Women podcast recording.

So hi to our audience here.

We're so glad you're here.

And of course, hi to our guest, Elisa Childers, who if you've listened to our podcast before you know well wait a second you've already had elisa childers on which tells you a couple things one we loved

having her on yes our guests loved loved us having her on wanted us to talk to her more and then

we're here at the Maven conference where

Elisa is speaking. So we thought, well, we've got to do this again. And she was so kind to say yes.

So here we are at the Maven conference. So to introduce our guest to you, Elisa Childers,

if you are a listener to Strong Woman podcast, go back if you didn't already hear

our first interview with her. Episode 15. And that is where you will get to hear her story

and her journey as a Christian and then through progressive Christianity and how she came out of that.

And on the first interview, we talked a little bit about some of the lies that is seeping into the church.

But when we had a chance to talk to you again, Lisa, we thought we have got to talk more about some of the lies that we believe as Christians and you have done so much study

and work on that so we knew okay this would be a great time to do that so

Alisa has a talk on your podcast that if you want to hear even more about what

we're going to talk about today go to Lisa's podcast and it's called pretty

little lies where you go over

five lies that the Christian culture says to us. And yeah, well, maybe first talk about, how did

that whole talk come about? Well, that's a good question because I initially was focusing on progressive Christianity

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